Nov 28, 2016 / Community Pool

Community Pool

The place for feedback, advice, and blogging camaraderie.

Have you just published a new post and are dying for some feedback? Are you redesigning your blog and could use some layout or design advice from your more seasoned peers?

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Tap into the wisdom of The Daily Post blogging community and leave your question here in the comments. Others can then click through and offer input either on your site, or in the comments here (feel free to indicate which you’d prefer).

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  • While you’re not required to, we encourage everyone who requests feedback to also reply to at least one or two other bloggers who need some help. Spread the love!
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  3. I told you about my site a few weeks back in another pool, but given that the story’s about to get to the point where I think it really picks up, with the introductions and such things done, I figured it wouldn’t hurt much to tell you about it again.

    Could use comments, spreading the word, and knowledge that someone out there likes it.

    http://utangard.wordpress.com

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      2. Just visited your blog and read your latest post on ‘How to stick to priorities’
        Lovely and useful tips, and one should always prioritise their most important tasks to be at the forefront and work your way down.

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  11. Hi Everyone!

    I just restarted up my blog and have added a few posts during the last week. I would love any insight that you might have regarding my blog layout, the color palette, my writing style, etc. I am hoping to keep this going, but don’t want to continue if there isn’t an audience that would read it.

    I’m slowly figuring out all the formatting and hoping to add a new logo and redo the site design in the next few weeks so let me know what you think.

    https://www.shessoelle.com

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  12. Hi guys 🙈
    Not sure if I did it right the first time but I wasn’t able to edit it . Either way I’m fairly new and always seem to miss the community pool so I’m excited to finally dive in ❣😁 please check my blog out and comments and feedback are welcomed ❣ can’t wait to meet some new people ❣

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  17. Hello bloggers,
    To write is what i dream of every single day..
    This blog acts as an ointment to my past. Though i haven’t mentioned anything about it for i believe in healing secretly. So check out my blog. Do leave your feedbacks coz i just love to read them.. it also helps me to understand my mistakes so that i may correct them in future.
    https://amyspenblog.wordpress.com/
    Have fun.. read learn live..

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  18. Hello friends! Hope you all are doing very well. At my site you will get variety of posts from inspiration to motivation, friendship to romance, poetries to musings. And here’s a link of my latest post that is a love musing THEN ONE DAY..

    Then one day… 

    Hope you guys enjoy visiting me.
    Waiting for your feedback.
    Purva

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    1. Hey, I really liked some of your posts 😊 my blog also touches in the importance of holistic health and personal development. I hope o draw some inspiration from you

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      1. Hey Jessica Rose, thank you for checking out my posts, I’m glad to see that there are others talking about topics similar to mine. If I’m not mistaken, I’ve seen that you’re also an athlete so I’ll look forward to your next posts !

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      3. I’m impressed ! I play basketball, not at an elite level like you yet but I’ll work to make it happen one day. I’m really interested in the knowledge you could provide, if your posts could talk about things like the mindset and mentality of an elite athlete, you’ll definitely have my support ! I’ll follow your blog anyway because you’ve caught my interest 🙂

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      4. Thankyou! Yeah, that’s exactly where I want to head. I really want to formulate my ideas on that first though as it’s really important to me 😊

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      1. Hey Jessy. Thanks for the appreciation. On mobile, the follow button comes near the bottom after Top Posts. On laptop ot is in the right column after Top Posts. I hope now you will get it.
        Your blog site is also very nice and interesting. Since I am also interested in healthy lifestyle, I have started following your blog and hope to read many more interesting posts. Keep posting.

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    1. I like the examples you used to explain floating on the ISS. Your writing was a bit cumbersome in places. For instance, “Did you ever ask yourselves that why people float at the Iinternational Space Station while working??” would read better as, “Have you ever asked yourself why people float while working at the International Space Station?” You might find a free editing app such as hemingwayapp.com to be helpful. https://gracelead.co

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    1. Your site layout seems fine. I looked at your latest post, Discouragement. I like your point of view. It would be easier to read with some editing. For instance, “they think they’d better at it” should be “they think they’re better at it” You might find a free editing app such as hemingwayapp.com to be helpful. https://gracelead.co

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      1. Thank you!
        I really enjoyed your blog as well. Especially your About page. I felt a sense of sincerity from your words. I immediately gave you a follow 🙂

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  28. Hello everyone. I am fairly new here. And it’d be awesome if you guys could just checkout my blog and give me feedback or anything. I’ve written about music for my first post.
    Thank you!

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    2. I really enjoyed reading what you were trying to say. Keep up the writing. One of the things I do with my posts is have someone review it for grammatical mistakes. I think it really helps to have another eye on it before I post. Another piece of advice a fellow blogger gave me was to show more photos. I think you can still do this with your music theme.

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    3. Liked and commented! Great post… We do Music Mondays over at the Nostalgia Diaries so we like music, too — and agree that our lives are so much better when there’s music involved. Welcome to the blogging world 🙂

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  29. I’d like to invite everyone to stop by and take a look at a photography piece I posted earlier today, “Farewell to Fall 2016.” I took it Sunday afternoon during a hike on the Virginia Creeper Trail, and I think it captures the time of year when fall is ending and winter is about to begin. If you like it, please leave a like on the post page and follow me as I post several times a week. Of course, I welcome comments and any feedback, please leave them on the post page as well. Thanks in advance for taking a few moments to take a look.
    Drew

    Farewell to Fall 2016

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